AuthorTopic: installation failure (Read 1311 times)

I'm new here. I'm not a newbie nor do I consider myself an advanced linux user. I have, however, installed at least a dozen linux distros on my system but here I am stumped.

I've followed the installation procedures for VL 7 gold. I'm using my usb external hard drive sdb1 for the installation with one partition mounted to "/" and also have a valid swap on sdb2. I've chosen grub to go on the main boot record on my internal hard drive sda. When I reboot, the vector linux splash screen hangs with the progress bar frozen. What other information can I give you? I was thinking my usb drive might be having trouble but perhaps others have experienced the same?

I just bought a new usb hard drive (1.5 tb). Once again, grub is installed on my MBR which is my internal hd (hda). I checked for bad blocks on that drive and all is ok. After a fresh installation, the results are the same. So I loaded the cd and booted directly to the installation "root=/dev/sdb3 ro" (or something like that) and I got the following message(s)

Ok. It seems the kernel is loading faster than my usb hard drive can be recognized so I added "rootdelay=10" at the prompt. It worked! Question is: how can i make this permanent? I'm assuming that should be entered into a grub file - but which one? Thanks in advance.